LANGUAGE AND SCHIZOPHRENIA -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgement -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- 1. Linguistics and Psychiatry Toward the Language of Schizophrenia -- 1.1. Classical, classificational attitude -- 1 2. Nonorthodox attitudes -- 1.2.1. In the circle of humanistic psychiatry -- 1.2.1.1. Uncommon conviction no. 1: We, the healthy people, are not logical, after all -- 1.2.1.2. Uncommon conviction no. 2: It is we who bear the blame for communicative failure with schizophrenics -- 1.2.2. In the circle of ethnography - Anna Gruszecka's theory -- 1.2.3. In the circle of cognitive approach-a chance for solution? -- 2. The Schizophrenic Entangled in the Speech Act: A Pragmatic View of the Sources of Schizophrenics' Communication Failure -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Emotion as substitute for calculation and manipulation in schizophrenics' selection of linguistic means -- 2.3. The role of expectation in the language communication of schizophrenics -- 2.4. The deictical level in schizophrenics' utterances -- 2.5. A view of the receiver of schizophrenics' messages -- 2.6. The schizophrenic silence -- 2.7. Conclusions -- 3. The Schizophrenic Entangled in Meanings. Part I: The Relationship Between Denotation and Connotation in the Language of Schizophrenics -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Fundamentals of the semantic approach -- 3.3. The material -- 3.3.1. The meaning of FATHER -- 3.3.1.1. The denotative semes -- 3.3.1.2. The connotative semes -- 3.3.2. The term FATHER in schizophrenic language -- 3.4. Conclusions -- 3.5. Interpretation -- 3.5.1. Introductory notes -- 3.5.2. Specific usage of the term FATHER by schizophrenics in the light of Laplantine's cultural matrices -- 3.6. Further examples of the use of semic analysis of the semantic peculiarities in schizophrenic language.

3.6.1. Analysis of the meaning of the word CURRENT in G's statements -- 3.6.2. POLAND in M's texts -- 3.7. Conclusions -- 4. The Schizophrenic Entangled in Meanings. Part II:The Role of Harmony, Symmetry and Rhythm in the Schizophrenic's Organization of Utterances -- 4.1. Stereotypes of the human condition in the utterances of the schizophrenic G based on the example of the conditions of persons forming in G's utterances the lexical field FRIENDS -- 4.2. Schizophrenic harmony of opposites as a phenomenon of semantic symmetry -- 4.3. The linguistic phenomenon of schizophrenic series -- 4.4. Semantic systems of schizophrenics -- 4.5. Conclusions -- 5. The Schizophrenic Entangled in the Sign: Schizophrenia as a Semiotic Illness -- 5.1. The boundaries of language, the boundaries of the world: the role of language in perception of reality -- 5.2. When everything has meaning: the schizophrenic overload of meanings -- 5.3. When your thoughts are not your own: the interpenetration of the external and internal world in schizophrenia -- 5.4. Conclusion -- 6. The Nature of the Linguistic Sign in Schizophrenia -- 6.1. Introductory remarks -- 6.2. Signifiant and Signifie (Sa - Se I) -- 6.3. Signifiant and Referent I (Se - Re I) -- 6.4. Signifie I and Referent I (Se I - Re I) -- 6.5. Signifie and Signifie I (Se - Se I) -- 7. Common Language Versus the Language of Schizophrenics (17 theses) -- References -- INDEX.